Windows 7 and Office Suite Software

[Gordon]

My late mother-in-law turned up for her driving test and found the
driving school instructor apologising profusely for the non-availability
of the car she'd learned on, and explaining that she'd have to remember
the indicator was now on the other side of the steering wheel.

She failed the test and gave up learning.

Luxury!
When I learned to drive in the mid-seventies I had four lessons, one a
month, each lesson on a different car, no practice in between, and the test
was on a fifth model of car!
I passed first time...

 

[Donzee]

"Tony Vella" wrote in message

Not that one, the other one. Reread his post.

I am never quite sure whether to post product names or not. The
recommendations I have been receiving are about OpenOffice Suite and
the emails do not come from Org, they come from a group that uses
OO.

I have nothing against installing OO on my machine, God knows I have
more space than I could ever use. I was simply trying to find out -
in a not too understandable way, it seems - what a 2012 software
could possibly give me that a 2003 software cannot vis-à-vis
word-processing, databasing, and spreadsheeting.

I guess OO is "allright" it seems to be mostly used by Mac Freaks who
refuse to use anything Windows no matter how good it is. 2003 always
worked fine, and Office 2010 does a lot more better.

 

[Steve Hayes]

I'm extremely curious as to what automobile manufacturer put the turn
indicator on the right-hand stick.

The same one as put it on the left-hand stick.

Toyota certainly produce cars with both, and practising switching from one to
the other and indicating turns with your windscreen wipers will make at a lot
easier to adapt to the different places software vendors put stuff.

 

[VanguardLH]

I ask this question to those who use MS Office 2003 Pro on a Windows 7
machine. I was given 2003 Pro when it first came out and I have used it
consistently (Word, Excel, Access) on Win XP, Vista and now 7 and it has
always done everything I asked of it except that I had to purchase MS
One Note 2010 separately because it was not included in 2003.

Recently I have been receiving emails from an open-source office
software group suggesting that now that I am using Windows 7 Premium I
should get rid of my MS 2003 Pro (but keep my One Note) and adopt the
most recent version of their office suite.

I wonder if others have been approached with this recommendation and
what the general feeling out there is about the whole thing. TIA.

You actually based your app decisions on spam that you receive? Did you
subscribe to their newsletter?

We are expected to divine what is the unnamed "office suite"? Without
identifying the software promoted by the spam e-mail, it really looks
like you are fishing here for opinions on why to switch away from MS
Office 2003, not on why you should switch to some unnamed software
bundle.

What is it that the spam says you need beyond what you can already do in
MS Office 2003? Have you even used the full feature set of any
component (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc) in the Office 2003 suite? I've
used MS Word through various versions over many years and there are
still tons of features that I haven't used mostly because I didn't need
them and sometimes because I didn't even know about them.

 

[G Mulcaster]

I ask this question to those who use MS Office 2003 Pro on a Windows 7
machine. I was given 2003 Pro when it first came out and I have used it
consistently (Word, Excel, Access) on Win XP, Vista and now 7 and it has
always done everything I asked of it except that I had to purchase MS
One Note 2010 separately because it was not included in 2003.

Recently I have been receiving emails from an open-source office
software group suggesting that now that I am using Windows 7 Premium I
should get rid of my MS 2003 Pro (but keep my One Note) and adopt the
most recent version of their office suite.

I wonder if others have been approached with this recommendation and
what the general feeling out there is about the whole thing. TIA.

I used Office 2003 Pro and Win7 with no problems.

I installed Office 2007 Ultimate a few months ago and don't like it.
It is overfeatured to the point of complexity. For example, when
opening an Access database created with 2003, you have to go through a
security process to get it to display. Also, I've had no luck
converting 2003 Access or Excell files to 2007.

My wife has gone back to Office 2003. I'm considering doing the same.
At my age this computer stuff is a challenge

All this to say: If you like 2003, keep it!

Gary

 

[BobbyM]

I used Office 2003 Pro and Win7 with no problems.

I installed Office 2007 Ultimate a few months ago and don't like it.

Some people like the ribbon, others don't. Personally, I like it better
than all those drop down menus.

It is overfeatured to the point of complexity. For example, when
opening an Access database created with 2003, you have to go through a
security process to get it to display. Also, I've had no luck
converting 2003 Access or Excell files to 2007.

Don't know why you'd be having a problem; there's really no conversion
process other than saving them in the new file extension. Open the file
& then "save as" & choose the file type (usually the first one listed).
For excel files, it's "Excel Workbook (*.xlsx).

My wife has gone back to Office 2003. I'm considering doing the same.
At my age this computer stuff is a challenge

All this to say: If you like 2003, keep it!

No reason to upgrade if you're happy with what you've got, but you might
want to install the converters if you want to open files created in the
newer formats.